Our estate requires a couple of different finishes on the front of the house, so we are going to have face brick with a 2 course strip of render across the front. The builder we're probably going to build with quoted us a little over $1600 for, by my measurements, approx 25m of render, 2 courses thick. This sounds a little pricey to me, can anyone give me some indications of what I should expect? We're in Perth if that makes any difference.
If I can get it done considerably cheaper, then I might see if the estate will let us build it without the render provided we get it done within a certain time frame from hand over. Does that sound like something that would be done usually? Maybe they use different bricks for the rendered part, I'm not sure.